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February 28, 2005

Disbelief

That when I ask them to answer X number of questions, I mean X number of questions--and not all of them.

That when I tell them "I'm going to examine you on A, B, and C," I will indeed examine them on "A, B, and C," as opposed to "D, E, and F."

That " " ( ).

That they should keep a safe distance when informing me that they're currently suffering from an evil and contagious viral infection that has taken over their ability to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (Er, hello? E-mail me or use the phone, people.)

That they should not ask me if they missed anything when they were absent. (Nah, those lectures were purely for my own entertainment.)

According to Carl Jung, "Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is…But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected, and is liable to burst forth suddenly in a moment of unawareness" (88).

To pull an example from the paper I'm procrastinating on.

Took me the longest time to break the habit of putting the period inside the quotation marks...